I know "Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Samma Sambuddhassa" means "Honour to the Blessed One, the Exalted One, the fully Enlightened One." I was just curious about which Pali word corresponded with which English word.

Your assistance would be appreciated.

Metta

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yuttadhammo wrote:Sammā is probably "rightly"... fully would be "paripuṇṇa" or some such thing. "sam" means self, so sambuddhassa could just be "self-enlightened", though "enlightened by himself" works too

namo Homage or Honor or I bow downtassa to thatbhagavato Blessed One or Auspicious One or Exalted Onearahato Worthy One or Enlightened Onesammā rightly or properly or supremely or fully sam selfbuddhassa enlightened

namo Homage or Honor or I bow downtassa to thatbhagavato Blessed One or Auspicious One or Exalted Onearahato Worthy One or Enlightened Onesammā rightly or properly or supremely or fully sam selfbuddhassa enlightened

There might be too many translations for sammā.

Isn't it nice to have the word rightly, properly, supremely and fully translated?

namo Homage or Honor or I bow downtassa to thatbhagavato Blessed One or Auspicious One or Exalted Onearahato Worthy One or Enlightened Onesammā rightly or properly or supremely or fully sam selfbuddhassa enlightened

There might be too many translations for sammā.

Isn't it nice to have the word rightly, properly, supremely and fully translated?

Yes. I see now why some teachers prefer using the Pali words over the English ones. Sammā is much easier.

yuttadhammo wrote:"to that" would probably be more correct. bhagavato by itself would mean "to the blessed one" already.

I'm sorry, that's not right... it seems likely that "tassa" here should be "to him", not "to that (blessed one)"; so a proper translation (grammatically anyway, your choice of words may differ), would be:

Homage to him - the blessed one, the worthy one, the rightly self-awakened Buddha.

yuttadhammo wrote:"to that" would probably be more correct. bhagavato by itself would mean "to the blessed one" already.

I'm sorry, that's not right... it seems likely that "tassa" here should be "to him", not "to that (blessed one)"; so a proper translation (grammatically anyway, your choice of words may differ), would be:

Homage to him - the blessed one, the worthy one, the rightly self-awakened Buddha.

Thank you, Venerable.

Update -

namo Homage or I bow downtassa to himbhagavato the Blessed One or the Exalted Onearahato the Worthy One or the Enlightened Onesammā rightly or fully sam selfbuddhassa awakened-Buddha or enlightened-Buddha

yuttadhammo wrote:"to that" would probably be more correct. bhagavato by itself would mean "to the blessed one" already.

I'm sorry, that's not right... it seems likely that "tassa" here should be "to him", not "to that (blessed one)"; so a proper translation (grammatically anyway, your choice of words may differ), would be:

Homage to him - the blessed one, the worthy one, the rightly self-awakened Buddha.

You are both right. Every word in the sentence (except namo) stands in dative case, which implies a "to". Therefore it says "to him", "to the blessed one", "to the worthy one", "to the rightly self-awakened one". In Pali, that is normal usage. In English it feels superfluous with so many repetitions of "to", so we keep only one and skip the rest of them.

yuttadhammo wrote:"to that" would probably be more correct. bhagavato by itself would mean "to the blessed one" already.

I'm sorry, that's not right... it seems likely that "tassa" here should be "to him", not "to that (blessed one)"; so a proper translation (grammatically anyway, your choice of words may differ), would be:

Homage to him - the blessed one, the worthy one, the rightly self-awakened Buddha.

You are both right. Every word in the sentence (except namo) stands in dative case, which implies a "to". Therefore it says "to him", "to the blessed one", "to the worthy one", "to the rightly self-awakened one". In Pali, that is normal usage. In English it feels superfluous with so many repetitions of "to", so we keep only one and skip the rest of them.

Actually, I was correcting myself... I had said that it should be "homage to that blessed one", which thinking about it seems improbable, since, as you say, they are all in dative case, and so it should be "to him, the blessed one..." It was just a question of whether "tassa" is the main object and the rest are qualifiers, or "bhagavato" is the main object instead. Since the rest of the words are qualifiers, I would suggest a literal translation not be to add "to" to every word, but rather "who is" to the ones that are not the main object, i.e.:

"Homage to him, who is blessed, who is a worthy one, who is rightly self-awakened."

in the same way that one would translate (literally), "yo so bhagavā arahaṃ sammāsambuddho..." as "He who is blessed, who is worthy, who is perfectly self-awakened...".

Namo is to direct your mind to 'Bhagavaa araha.m sammaasambuddho'.It is usually accompanied by verbal and bodily action.More accurate, namo is the personification of the action of Vandanaa.

Tassa is literally to that; it indicates that the person is not in the presence of Bhagavaa...Bhagavaa is how the disciples addressed him. It means Lord and is the standard Indian way of referring to Guru (Religious teacher) or Satthaa in Pali.Araham is and indication of absolute purity of Bhagavaa...He is worthy of worship by everybody without exception.Sammaasambuddho-Sammaa means only, unique, right perfect etc. He is only equal to himself. It is Bhagavaa's knowledge. Also sammaa di.t.thi...sammaa samaadhi is the Ariyoa.t.tha,ngikomaggo (The Aryan Eightfold Path) discovered by Samana Gotama--Majjhimaa Pa.tipadaa. Its realisation made him the Sammaasambuddho.